Thanks to a tweet from the official T-Mobile UK Twitter account we now have confirmation that the HTC Hero will be launched by them under the G2 Touch name. You may remember that it was originally going to launch as the G1 Touch, but it looks like they decided to change it. I guess this could be because the name could be too similar to the T-Mobile G1. This will obviously create less problems in the future, but for now, we're confused.

T-Mobile UK has also confirmed that the G2 Touch will be available for free on a new 18-month contract that costs £40 ($65 USD) a month; "the tariff will be one of their Flext schemes, offering £225 ($364 USD)-worth of credit per month to be used as the subscriber sees fit." I don't know what the part quotes means, but maybe you do.

Yeah, HTC Hero definitely sounds better than T-Mobile G2 Touch. Here in Canada it could launch as the HTC Hero. It could actually be launched as the HTC Hero in US too, since T-Mobile isn't launching it. It's up to AT&T / Sprint / Verizon.